Category: Round Up

Roundup is a non-selective herbicide commonly used to kill weeds. Glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup, is inhibiting a specific enzyme required for plant growth. By 2001, the Roundup weed killer was the most popular ingredient in American agriculture. Even today, Roundup is the most extensively used herbicide in the United States and worldwide. Scientific […]

Bayer, the parent company of Monsanto, is in mediation to possibly settle thousands of Roundup lawsuits. But as Reuters reports, some legal experts are uncertain whether these cases can easily be resolved. They cite the potential for novel legal questions that could drag out settlements in the Roundup cases. To date, Bayer has lost three […]

Most people are aware of the litigation currently pending against Monsanto, the manufacturers, and distributors of RoundUp weed killer. Even if you’re not very familiar with the case, you’ve probably seen commercials about the lawsuits on television. Research into Roundup shows the active ingredient, glyphosate, could be a carcinogen. Basically, thousands of cases have been […]

An Oakland jury recently awarded $2 billion in a verdict against Monsanto concerning its popular Roundup weed killer. The jury determined that a couple had developed cancer after years of exposure to the herbicide. Scientists and other health experts have warned for years that the active ingredient in Roundup, glyphosate, poses a significant risk of […]

On May 13, a California jury awarded a couple over $2 billion in a lawsuit over Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer. Alva and Alberta Pilliod, the plaintiffs in the Roundup cancer case, used Roundup on their property for over three decades. The Pilliods claimed they developed non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma after long-term exposure to glyphosate, the key ingredient […]

It’s hard to watch television these days without seeing an advertisement for the Monsanto RoundUp class action litigation. Part of this is due to the fact that the lawsuits have only been initiated in the last few years. Another reason is that so many people may have been affected by the product. For over forty […]

One of the most well known mass tort cases filed in the last few years involve RoundUp, a weed killer made by Monsanto. When the Monsanto RoundUp lawsuits were first filed, Monsanto denied that their product had any link to cancer. RoundUp is a weed killer used by both individuals and commercial landscapers. Plaintiffs in […]